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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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tracted Eastern writers that Hebraic legend is full of
tales of Joseph, adding a thousand details to the brief
but vigorous outline given in the Bible. In charac-
ter also Joseph stands foremost, being both the hero
and the saint. We find in him neither the fierceness
of Abraham, the self-indulgence of Isaac, nor the
guile of Jacob; and when in later life he had risen
to his highest, he remained as pure and noble as in
his days of trial. Of his later destiny he could, however, have no
knowledge in the first moment of the overthrow of his
youthful fortunes. Despite the surly grumblings of
his brothers, he had ventured confidently among them
in far off Dothan. Then the sudden disaster over-
whelmed him. He was seized, cast into the deep pit
to die, and, after all hope seemed gone, was upraised
from the pit only to be heartlessly sold into slavery.
From Dothan he was carried southward not so very
far perhaps from the home where his father awaited
him, and so onward into Egypt. How bewildered,
how tragic, must have been his youthful thoughts!

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JOSEPH SOLD TO POTIPHAR

AFTER THE PAINTING BY A. FALDI.

And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of
the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of
the Ishmaelites.—Gen., 39, 1.

THE PERIOD when Joseph was sold into
Egypt must have been somewhere about four-
teen hundred years before Christ. At that
time Egypt was under the dominion of foreigners,
the race of Hyksos or shepherd kings. These had
come from Asia, probably passing through Palestine
before Abraham, and had conquered Egypt. Hence
this was an opportune time for a foreigner, especial-
ly an educated, high-bred, Asiatic shepherd such as
Joseph, to rise to prominence under these foreign
Pharaohs. At first Joseph was not thrown into direct
contact with the dominant race. His first master
Potiphar, as we are expressly told, was a native Egyp-
tian, though one who had been taken into service by
the conquerors and held very high rank among them.
In the home of Potiphar, Joseph probably dwelt
for a decade or more. Here he must have been and

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